Example sentences of "only [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You only lived here for a couple of years . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I only came here as a consultant and do not want to get deeply involved , ’ he insisted . |
| 3 | ‘ How can she have deteriorated so seriously in such a short time , when she only came here for a check-up ? ’ |
| 4 | For a boy who only worked part-time in a supermarket he had too much money , and this was another source of innuendo from Mrs Frizzell . |
| 5 | you know er it helps if erm it helps if the groups that you 're comparing between there 's about sort of at least twenty people in each sort of thing , erm and the same goes for things like , things that you might want to do squares on or something like that erm so I mean if you were interested in comparing people who attended very regularly with people who only attended once in a while erm you know it would help if there were about sort of more than forty people altogether so that there was sort of , you know |
| 6 | He only won once as a novice but was very consistent . |